A cooperation agreement signing ceremony is held during the press conference in Beijing, Oct 29, 2015.[Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The 2016 China International Electronic Commerce Expo will be held in next April in Yiwu city, East China's Zhejiang province where the expo is hosted for the third straight year, according to a press conference held by the expo's organizing committee in Beijing on Thursday.

The expo is jointly sponsored by Zhejiang provincial government, China International Electronic Commerce Center, China International Electronic Commerce Center and Yiwu municipal government, under the guidance of Ministry of Commerce of China and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The organizing committee has received more than 400 reservations for nearly 1,000 booths by Oct 20, said Ge Guoqing, deputy party chief of Yiwu city, the world's largest wholesale market of consumer goods, providing 1.8 million types of goods drawing about 500,000 visits by overseas buyers every year.

In addition to these, a lot of globally well-known cross-border e-commerce companies has expressed clear willingness to take part in the 2016 expo, including Shopfans from the US, DHL, Paypal and China Post, etc, according to Yao Zhaohai, deputy director of China International Electronic Commerce Center.

Compare with this year's expo which concluded on April 13 and attracted 1,031 company exhibitors and more than 100,000 visits, the 2016 expo will feature with more cross-borders e-commerce delegates aimed at further boosting the cross-border transaction, said Wang Ning, the vice-president of China Electronic Chamber of Commerce.

Furthermore, a special exhibition zone composed of 200 to 300 booths will be firstly reserved for the online sellers, added Wang.

A number of sub-forum or events will be held at the sideline of the expo, including a competition of e-commerce models who present goods for online sellers and the 2nd World Weishang (micro online business sellers) Conference, according the organizing committee.

"We will see an expansion of The 2nd World Weishang Conference," said Wang Ning.

Confronted with the complicated international trade situation, we hope to better link China with rest of the world and boost its trade with other counties through e-commerce, said Su Jun, official with China Association of Trade in Service.